Grammar for ALL

• National Punctuation Day!!!! September 24
• Animated Grammar Web page that hosts little bitty animated videos that explain grammatical concepts.
• Madlibs online Yes, madlibs. You can also paste in a widget of madlibs.
• English Exercises Online Gobs of exercises, lesson plans. A real motherload.
• Grammar Bites A fun site with interactive games.
• Got quizzes? Good site for online quizzes about almost every part of grammar instruction.
• NYT Grammar Quiz This is tricky. I love the grammarians weighing in on the post quiz discussion! Try it yourself.
• Wide World of Verbs Has a couple of easy interactive quizzes.
• Latin-Greek Derivatives A page full of Latin and Greek morphs - just for fun... ha.
• Greek root words.
  When Should You Correct Someone's Grammar? - A short little article about whether you should tell someone not to say "between you and I" or get punched in the face.
• National Grammar Day (March 4)
• http://www.chompchomp.com/presentations.htm This is a webpage with grammar POWERPOINTS and handouts.
• 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - an article on some of the dubious advice in Strunk & White's The Elements of Style.
• The Elements of Style Yep, here is the online version. Check out the dubious advice for yourself. Nice searchable feature in this online edition.
• Grammar Can Be Fun! - an odd picture book from a while back.
• How To Use A Semi-Colon - A graphically-interesting look at a misunderstood punctuation mark.
• Read Dave Barry's humorous views on grammar:<http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/interviews/dbarry/db05.html>
• Andy Rooney's quibbles on word choice and usage: <http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/interviews/arooney/ar01.html>
• Is "proper" grammar always best? Poets like John Ashberry <http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit15/authors-1.html> challenge
  readers' expectations by taking liberties with grammar.

Just for Teachers (Students, these might bore you):
Teaching grammar presents certain challenges. The article "To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!" in PDF format:
<http://www.learner.org/workshops/middlewriting/images/pdf/W8ReadGrammar.pdf>emphasizes the importance of teaching grammar in the context of writing.
The article is included in Workshop 8 of Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers:
<http://www.learner.org/workshops/middlewriting/>.
Explore sentence syntax as it relates to math and patterns in the Teacher's Lab Syntax Store:
<http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/patterns/syntax/syntax_back.html>.
Scientists have found that grammar and patterns in language are hard-wired in the brain. Learn more about this, and about how language is acquired, in Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition Program 6,"Language Development":
<http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/06/e06expand.html
"Usage and Mechanics" <http://www.learner.org/workshops/hswriting/workshops/workshop5/>,
Workshop 5 of Developing Writers: A Workshop for High School Teachers, reviews effective strategies for teaching grammar. Web materials include an interactive to help you assess your own methods of assessing student work.